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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1938)
Courier Gateway to The Oregon Caves Illinois Valley News A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS Junction, Oregon. Thursday, February 10, 1938 V olume I -5- Granddads Trim Pops Tuesday Nite ~Tke Alattutecl /lineo L Last Tuesday night in the Ker by high school gym, the Grand dads of Kerby took the Cave City Pops to a perfectly good clean ing, when the two teams played a iame of basketball. Playing 4-minute periods for the oldsters, the men of Kerby found the basket for 1 4points, while the best the Cave Cityites could do was 6 points. The surprising thing game was the close checking both sides made for men not used to playing the game. The score was low because many throws missed the mark and the checking had a great deal to do with it too. How ever, the Kerby men were better skilled than the Cave City men, and they hit the basket oftener. Cave City would have had a good goose egg hung up if it had not been for Lloyd Hays, who came in for Dr. Collman, who sprained his ankle. Lloyd found the bas ket and kept Cave City’s skirts from being smeared with a big cipher, with the help of Mr. Baum- berger who hit the basket for two points and threw a foul. Beginning the evenings festiv ities, there was a real game. Sel ma city team and the Lime House team of Wonder played one of the best games ever seen on the high school court. The two teams were very evenly matched and at the end of the game the score was a tie, 28 all. An overtime period gave Lime House enough t obeat out the home team. Between the games Nat Wool- ley and Ted Athey held a contest to see who could hit the basket the most times out of five shots. Neither connected so the contest was a tie. Then a team of ladies composed of Helen Floyd, Mrs. Hoskins, May Bonham, Freda Baumgartner and Mrs. Ferd Jones, threw five times each from the foul line against the Kerby Granddads and almost beat them, but the men came out best with the score 9 for the ladies and 12 for the men. Alva Laws refereed the game for the oldsters and made a fine job of it, even if he did get tired watching to old boys throw the ball away and tryinng to find out who was on who’s side to call fouls, Once this reporter saw Ken Carson and M. C. Athey f f ▼ ♦A'?/* ' ? . AJ?** •3 COMING EVENTS E>................................. -........................ Id Every Tuesday noon — Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce meets. I Monday, February 14 — Valen tine's Day. — Western Star Chapter No. 64, O. E. S. will meet Tuesday, Febru ary 15. — Wednesday, February 16—Amer ican Legion Auxiliary meets. Tuesday, March 8 — Cave City Women's club will meet at the home of Mrs. Schumacher, at 2 p. m. Thursday, March 17 — St. Pat rick’s Day. Friday, April 1—All Fool’s Day I Sunday, April 17—Easter Sunday. Sunday, May 8—Mother’s Day. Monday, May 30—Memorial Day. Tuesday. February 22—Washing ton’s Birthday. February 22—Silver Tea and Exhibit of old books. Benefit of Kerby Library. 1 • Í M 1 J A J ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Continued on Page Three) Saturday, February 12—Lincoln s Birthday. 7 Saturday, February 12th, we celebrate the birth of the Great Emancipator, the Martyred Lincoln. Lincoln, whose heart bled for those who suffered in the Civil War, for those who were killed or maimed and for the families left with a vacant chair. He was a man of compassion. A man who knew sorrow from childhood when his mother was taken from him at the age of nine. This boy helped his father make a coffin out of green lumber cut with a whipsaw. He helped bury his mother in a small forest clearing There was no ceremony—that troubled the young lad eral months later they secured the services of a wondering preacher who delivered a funeral service over the lonely grave. Abraham Lincoln never forgot that. His mother had a great influence over him as proved when he said in later life, “All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” His married life was very unhappy. His cabinet and mem bers of congress differed with him and his generals mostly lost battles which brought more criticism. He once said, “I am the loneliest man in America. There is no one to w hom Lean go and unload my troubles, assured of sympathy and help.” While campaigning against Douglas he said, "Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.” That great man was full of humility. He is credited with the famous saying: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and al) of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” His Gettysburg address is considered one of the greatest ever given and during his second inaugural he said: “With mal ice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds, to care for him who shall have born the battle, and for his widow and for his orphan —to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” We should all study the great words of Lincoln—“With mal ice toward none; with charity for all.” That is something we have failed to practice. As Lincoln, so are we, fighting for the salvation of a nation, “Let us strive to finish the work we are in,” and as Lincoln so aptly said in a letter to Major-General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863, “Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victory Price 5 Cents New Freight Chamber Of Service For Commerce I. V. Section Progressing The Illinois Valley Freight Ser At the last meeting of the Il vice has secured P. U. C. permit linois Valley Chamber of Com giving them authority to operate merce held Tuesday noon, a gen a daily freight service within the eral debate on questions took up Illinois Valley and between the much time, but even then, consid Illinois Valley and Grants Pass, erable business was made evident. They have made a contract with President Drews told the mem the Grants Pass Cheese factory bers the attitude of the board of for the rtnsportation of their milk directors, which met last week and cream from the Illinois Valley and considered the matter of a to Grants Pass, in order for them burial association and a memorial to fulfill this contract it will be park. He said after due consider necessary to maintain a daily pick ation, the board was of the opin up service in the Illinois Valley ion that neither matter was a and a daily service between Grants chamber activity, but should pri Pass and the Illinois Valley. vate parties desire to start the as Their headquarters will be at sociation, the chamber would give Bob Rout’s garage at Cave Junc them all the moral support possi I tion, and headquarters at Grants ble. As far as the memorial park Pass will be determined later. was concerned, it was thought ad This service will be af an ad- visable to appoint a committee to vantage to the merchants and ask the I. O. 0. F. lodge what farmers in the valley as they will could be done to enlarge the pres- be able to get freight from the i ent cemetery and make it more at Pass the day on which it is or tractive. This was the boards re dered, that is an order placed in port for the chamber to adopt or the Pass in the morning will be reject. delivered in the valley by the Il Considerable discussion on both linois Valley Freight service in plans was indulged in and finally the afternoon, provided they are disposed of by appointing Dr. Col notified where it is to be picked lman a committee of one to wait up. on the I. O. O. F. lodge to ask We feel this is a service that them their advice on improve should be given the support of ments and enlargement of the merchants and farmers of the val cemetery, and if the lodge be ley as a daily service between the lieved such a plan was feasible valley and Grants Pass means a from a financial point of view. great deal to the valley, particu Dr. Brown moved that the ac larly in the summer time in the tion of the board be approved handling of perishable commod which was carried. ities. The matter of street lights was brought to the attention of the Chamber. Blake Miller said that News Items From the company would soon have a blanket contract which all could Kerby High School sign, designating the amount each would pay monthly toward keep ing the street lights operating, The basketball frame scheduled eliminating the work that Bert with Rogue River for last Friday Watkins has been doing in order had to be postponed because of to keep the lights burning, making the electricity being off. The the collections for the street game, therefore, was played in lights. A rising vote of thanks Grants Pass the following even was given Mr. Watkins for the ing where our team lost by a nar splendid work he has performed row margin. The score was 21 in the past. Dr. Brown reported that he had to 19. On Monday of this week many visited the new family that had pupils found it impossible to at moved into the valley, Mr. and tend school due to the high water. Mrs. Mervyn Mego, and found The Girls’ League had a reg that they were not new, but ular meeting on Monday. Re owned property in the valley and freshments of hot chocolate and would make their future home cake were served. Hobbies of here. Fred Galeno asked what the several of the girls were displayed and discussed, and the proper ap membership committee was doing. plication of cosmetics was demon He brought in two new members strated. The other girls drew Bob Balzke had worked for and names for little sisters. The youn turned the names in by Mr. Ga ger girls will not know until Val leno, he being unable to attend entines Day who their big sisters the meeting. Fred said the mem are. At that time a party will be bership committee should get given and Valentines exchanged- busy. Every merchant in the val A regular Student Body meet ley should be a member of the ing was held Wednesday, Febru Chamber. The organization is ary 9. After a brief business ses working for them and it is no sion, Mr. Jones presented and ex more than right that they should plained several topics of interest; support the Chamber both mor namely, the Poppy Poster contest ally and financially. It was agreed sponsored by the American Leg that the membership committee ion, a spelling match to which the should be told to get busy. A lengthy debate ensued on the Parent Teachers' association have challenged the members of the emblem that was suggested for the high school, a county contest on Chamber which would be used for public speaking, and the plan of all purposes. The emblem sug contribution for a permanent gested, pick and shovel crossed berth for the battleship Oregon. with gold pan in between, emble Ken Robinson, business manager matic of ear|y history, to be put on the annual staff, discussed on signs the Forest Service is go some details in connection to the ing to erect on historical spots all execution of the annual routine. over the valley. They will be On Tuesday of this week the hand-carved from wood, and the Kerby Granddads and the Cave emblem would appear on each City Pops played a hard game of sign. Dr.. Brown argued that the basketball at the high school gym. emblem was not the kind we want The Kerby team was able to attain ed. He suggested the Illinois Val ley—that was the point we wanted- the victory. The basement of the high school to bring out. After the debate, was flooded by about a foot of wa and nothing gained, it was decid ter this week as a result of the ed to bring the matter up at the high water. The Kerby fire de next meeting. Mr. Galeno asked what had partment was called to aid in pumping it out. The water had J been done about the blackboard risen so high that it was almost with the names of the members impossible to keep a fire in the on it. Nothing had been done, furnace, and the wood was float but it was moved and carried to purchase the board and Mr. Athey ing about. ■ - o---------------------- said he would print the names of Support the Fire Department, the members on cardboard so they o Look out for pedestrians. (i'vntlnued on Par* Thraa)
